Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Blooms like it hot, but mussels do not: Influence of invasive quagga mussels on cyanobacteria during summer

This study shows quagga mussels reduce cyanobacteria biovolume below 27.7°C but not above, and their filtration rates decline above 28.9°C, with implications for harmful algal blooms under global warming.

The quagga mussel genome and the evolution of freshwater tolerance

The paper sequenced the quagga mussel genome to identify evolutionary adaptations for freshwater tolerance, finding expanded aquaporin genes and osmoregulatory structures involved in embryonic osmoregulation.